Yeah... leather, right?

I *have* dealt with broken chains in the past. Some times, maybe most times, you can fix it on the side of the road. A broken belt is so rare as to be a non-issue. Perhaps if it's something one would worry about, you could replace it at some regular interval, maybe 30,000 or 40,000 miles.

 

Yes they did as I mentioned in my original rant.

They were made of leather and many were made up of several small pieces held together with rivets. I've never owned one of the early bikes that had the leather belts but I'm thinkin that even with the low power engines back then that belt slippage would have been a problem.

 

I met a guy that knew a guy that was a friend of another guy whose ex girlfriend told him about some guy that she heard about that took a box cutter and put a couple of small cuts in some dudes belt and within a month the guy was in the shop spending several hundred bucks getting his belt replaced.

 

Thanks. He knows it, too. Thinks he owns the damn place.